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Punchy wrote:I just have a problem with all these comics adaptations of cartoons claiming to be for kids and therefore superior to superhero comics, when they are clearly for nostalgic adults.

Ideally, it would be good if there were more original concept kid-friendly books. But the publishers will only go where the markets take them.

"I have my heroes, but no one knows their names"- Sons of the Desert

Strict31 wrote:I'm not sure that combining the nigh-uncontrollable power of LOLtron with the Nacireman is a good idea. Some years from now, when mankind is on the verge of extinction, we'll be able to look back and remember this moment, and say, "DANG."

Herald wrote:Thank you for further demonstrating your short-sightedness.

Right now, if children wanted to read mainstream DCnU/Marvel Universe comics, they COULDN'T. And why?? Because, paradoxically enough, creators and readers need to convince themselves that THEY are "Not kids anymore!" despite continuing to enjoy stories about people in colorful Halloween costumes hitting each other. So they have to have heroes and their foes cause nasty massacres, and Catwoman mounting Batman, both on-panel now.

Why should the kids lose out because you guys suffer from low self-esteem??

Do I have to be the one to point out the irony here? I really don't want to be.

Also, as I already mentioned, I'm one of the people who does NOT need so-called "adult themes" like extreme, on-panel gore in my comics in order to justify continuing to read about gaudily-dressed superbeings past the age of 12. Again, if you do need that, YOU have a self-esteem issue.

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”- C.S. Lewis

A TRUE adult isn't afraid to enjoy a few "childish" things out of fear of what others will think.

Next time, pay attention, Buggy; you might learn something.Or, at least, you might properly identify a real case of irony.

Punchy wrote:You're really missing the point here. I have no problem with childish things, I just have a problem with grown-people aggressively preferring childish things. You need a balance.

I don't like infantilisation.

Too bad everything you've said on this thread up to this point puts the lie to your claim. It's all been "Oh noes! Adults are going to enjoy something made for CHILDREN!! OH NOES!!" from your very first post. You haven't been interested at all in "balance" this ENTIRE TIME.

C.S. Lewis nailed you, and not in the way you might have enjoyed, either.

Punchy wrote:You're really missing the point here. I have no problem with childish things, I just have a problem with grown-people aggressively preferring childish things. You need a balance.

I don't like infantilisation.

The real problem is when the "childish things" are more well written and entertaining than the "adult things."

"I have my heroes, but no one knows their names"- Sons of the Desert

Strict31 wrote:I'm not sure that combining the nigh-uncontrollable power of LOLtron with the Nacireman is a good idea. Some years from now, when mankind is on the verge of extinction, we'll be able to look back and remember this moment, and say, "DANG."

Also, as I already mentioned, I'm one of the people who does NOT need so-called "adult themes" like extreme, on-panel gore in my comics in order to justify continuing to read about gaudily-dressed superbeings past the age of 12. Again, if you do need that, YOU have a self-esteem issue.

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”- C.S. Lewis

A TRUE adult isn't afraid to enjoy a few "childish" things out of fear of what others will think.

Next time, pay attention, Buggy; you might learn something.Or, at least, you might properly identify a real case of irony.